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U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 4:33pm neoform

FOX News -- Police in northwest Georgia have rescued a boy from a hot car where his mother's companion is accused of tying him up. Ringgold, Georgia, police say a Cracker Barrel restaurant employee called police after seeing Raymond Minchew take the six-year-old o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 9:25am neoform

www.washblade.com -- Days away from her seventh birthday, a little girl named Emma Rose is currently trapped in Georgia’s foster care system, unable to reunite with the woman who has been her mother for almost a year — all because the mother is a lesbian. The prospecti.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Nov 12, 2006 @ 2:50pm neoform

MSNBC -- A display in a central Georgia community divides the names of 800 local veterans into two lists, marked in large type: “Whites” and “Colored.”.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 7, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- Georgia executed a convicted murderer Tuesday, the first person to be put to death in the United States since the Supreme Court ended a de facto moratorium on capital punishment last month. Witnesses said William Earl Lynd died by lethal injection at a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 8, 2008 @ 8:11am neoform

CNN -- Georgia firefighters battled flames, and rescuers searched for the missing Friday, after a massive sugar refinery explosion that was felt miles away left at least 42 people injured, authorities said. Six people were unaccounted for after the Imperial Suga.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 1, 2007 @ 11:12am neoform

Google Associated Press -- The tough Georgia law that sent Genarlow Wilson to prison for having oral sex with a fellow teenager has been watered down. But in Georgia — and in many other states — it's still a crime for teenagers to have sex, even if they're close in age. Lega.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 26, 2007 @ 2:57pm neoform

www.ajc.com -- The Georgia Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of Genarlow Wilson, the Douglas County man who has been serving a controversial 10-year sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. The court's 4-3 decision uph.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 2, 2007 @ 8:07am neoform

USA Today -- A little less of a common forest fungus may help bring more of New England's celebrated fall foliage color this year, but warm weather earlier in the year in Georgia and a late summery weather in Ohio may mute the foliage there. Experts in New England.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A judge on Monday rejected an agreement to send a 1927 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe from Fisk University to a New Mexico museum, saying the deal wasn't in the best interests of the state of Tennessee. The painting, called "Radiator Building — Nig.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 9, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

FOX News -- A small-town Georgia police chief who left to face enemy fire in Iraq only to return and be fired by town officials got his job back Wednesday, thanks to an angry mayor. Doraville Mayor Ray Jenkins deemed his council's recent vote to oust Police Chief.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 20, 2007 @ 11:26am neoform

USA Today -- The courtroom was packed with supporters and cameras Friday as Georgia's top justices heard arguments over whether a young man serving a 10-year prison term for consensual oral sex with a fellow teenager should be freed. The long punishment spurred ang.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 10:46pm neoform

Washington Post -- For the second time in less than six months, a whale shark at the Georgia Aquarium, the only facility outside Asia to display the rare fish, has died. The whale shark, known as Norton, had stopped eating in recent months and was swimming erratically, a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 12:13am neoform

BBC News -- A man jailed for having consensual oral sex with a teenage girl in the US has had his 10-year prison sentence overturned by a court in Georgia. Genarlow Wilson, 21, was jailed in 2005 for aggravated child molestation after he was videotaped engaging in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 4:48pm neoform

Washington Post -- Tropical Storm Barry and its remnants gave a much-needed soaking to thousands of acres of burning swamp and timberland in northern Florida and southeastern Georgia. Saturday's rainfall -- as much as six inches in some spots -- was not enough to put out.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

CNN -- Tropical Storm Barry and its remnants gave a much-needed soaking to thousands of acres of burning swamp and timberland in northern Florida and southeastern Georgia. The remains of the storm rode up the East Coast Sunday with gusty winds and rain fallin.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 11:13pm neoform

FOX News -- The husband of Georgia 911 dispatcher Theresa Parker, who has been missing for two months, says he had nothing to do with his wife's disappearance and thinks she ran off after having an affair. "She got caught in a mess and imploded," Sam Parker told F.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 7:48am neoform

FOX News -- Firefighters managed to keep a sprawling wildfire along the Georgia-Florida line in check Monday, though officials warned that more residents might have to evacuate. Winds gusted up to 25 mph, and officials said any help from scattered showers and thun.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun May 13, 2007 @ 7:48pm neoform

USA Today -- Authorities briefly reopened two highways crossing north Florida into Georgia on Sunday before dense wildfire smoke forced them to again halt traffic, while hundreds of Florida residents waited to return to their threatened homes. Officials said Sunday.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 12, 2007 @ 11:15am neoform

FOX News -- Firefighters said today that a wildfire that has raced through the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia and into northern Florida has charred at least 179-thousand-940 acres — or 281 square miles — since a lightning strike ignited it a week ago. T.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 27, 2007 @ 8:48pm neoform

FOX News -- Wildfires flared up in drought-stricken southeast Georgia, destroying several buildings and forcing hundreds of fire-weary residents to leave their homes for the second time in two days. Deputies on Thursday visited about 100 homes in and near Astoria,.. Read More